Notes on turquois in the east [and] The diamond, a study in Chinese and Hellenistic folk-lore. Cet article n’est pas disponible.Notes on turquois in the east [and] The diamond, a study in Chinese and Hellenistic folk-lore

8vo, pp. [4], ii, [2], 71, [1], 8 plates, one in color; bound with: The diamond, a study in Chinese and Hellenistic folk-lore. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1915. pp. 75, [5]; later turquoise and brown buckram, gilt title on cover and spine; light edgewear, gilt of spine gone, text clean and sound, very good. Publications 169 (Vol. XIII No. I) and 184 (Vol XV, No. I) of the Field Museum of Natural History's Anthropological Series. The Notes on Turquoise was intended to accompany a larger manuscript by Joseph E. Pogue, but when the work was delayed Laufer published his part in a separate monograph. It covers turquoise in India, Tibet and China. "When Berthold Laufer came to The Field Museum in 1908, he was one of the few scholars in America who could speak and write the Chinese language fluently. He made the study of the Chinese language and culture his life's work. 'I have come to love the land and the people,' he once wrote. 'I feel myself to be better and healthier as a Chinese than as a European.' As Curator of Asian Ethnology in the Department of Anthropology at the Field, he made two major expeditions to China in 1908 and 1923, and his acquisitions form the core of the Museum's Chinese collections" (Lasting Impressions, Field Museum).…